Turns out Klara detests fruit that has been cut into pieces and prefers to hold a whole strawberry or a whole pear, even if it’s clear she’ll never finish it. Just like me! I also only eat whole fruit and vegetables and hate it when people take a perfectly good tomato and quarter it, making it uneatable.
At least, there’s something Klara has in common with me. She looks so identical to N that people laugh when they see them together and go, “Hey, I guess you won’t need a paternity test.” And with me it’s always, “Oh, so she’s yours? Is this your mommy, little girl?” And Klara, who unlike me has a great sense of humor, responds with a sly look, “No! Monkey mama!” And demonstrates her blue plastic monkey toy for people to admire the real mama.
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How do you eat waterelon,then? Good waterelon is one of my very favorite fruits.
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I know it’s barbaric but I cut it in half and eat it with a spoon.
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Otherwise my ears get too dirty.
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I cut it smaller than that and eat watermelon with a spoon, also. Cutting a ten kilo watermelon only in half makes an awfully big serving. Sorry for the earlier misspelling.
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Of course, watermelon must be eaten with salt to bring out the flavor
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With salt?? Never heard of that. I know people eat pickled watermelon but I never tried.
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It must be a regional custom. When I was a child in Northeast Tennessee, everyone I knew put salt on watermelon and also on grapefruit.
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Very interesting!
In my part of the world, we eat watermelon with rye bread.
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I love cutting watermelons into smaller cubes and eating with a fork. One of my most favorite dishes. 🙂
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Halfmoon watermelon is the only way to go, if only for the glee of making a mess of yourself in a way that doesn’t make you shunned by society.
I also don’t quite get biting into a whole tomato – bastards are pretty explosive, and they go better with just a little bit of salt and pepper on the juicy bits anyway.
Otherwise, yes, I’m in agreement with Klara here. Any fist-sized fruit is meant to go in your fist, not chopped to bits on a plate.
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Another of my favorite fruits is avocado. Eating one not at least cut in half seems difficult.
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I only put it in salads. Just eating it is too heavy for me.
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Half Moon with a spoon, yes!
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This thread made me desperate for a watermelon when I only have a honedew melon. Which you definitely have to cut.
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I don’t care for honeydew at all. It is difficult for me to believe that some people waste good soil growing honeydew when they could have a wonderful crop of canteloupe or watermelon. (Yes, I know ‘grow’ is an intransitive verb, but once again, common usage is undermining the beauty of English.)
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I agree completely with your point about common usage undermining the beauty of the language. Why do you dislike honedew, though?
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‘Dislike’ is too strong a word. Honeydew just seems rather tasteless to me, compared to canteloupe. Maybe too bland is a better way to express it.
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‘Dislike’ is too strong a word. Honeydew just seems rather tasteless to me, compared to canteloupe. Maybe ‘too bland’ is a better way to express it.
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You are right. It is a bit bland.
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Sorry. WordPress said I had already posted that, but it was not visible. Now it is there twice,with a minor edit.
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